Saturday, March 19, 2011

Writing about diaries and journals

Several of you have also expressed an interest in writing about family journals, diaries and day books.  In addition to our text on Sam Lane, you might also look at

The Sedgewicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement and Love in the Early Republic, Timothy Kinslea

Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal, Anya Jabour

A Midwife's Tale, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Rebecca Chase Kinsman by Charles Osgood, c. 1842


'"Demure Quakeress": Rebecca Kinsman in China, 1843-1847' in Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings, 2006-2007, Boston University, 2009.  (Text for this article will be uploaded to Blackboard.)
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  1. counting houseApril 6, 2011 at 4:38 AM

    Also see do history.org for a study of Midwife,s Tale and pulling info from diaries etc.

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